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In 2017, We investigated the growth of “murder“ – Permanto, invented for a selfie who is at risk of severe injury and death – and efforts to cancel this trend.

Our story said that one country was a focus of risky selfies. Scientists according to the data at the University of Cornell conducted an extensive search in online accounts about death with a selfie. Their report, “Me, I and my murder” Agreed 127 deaths from selfie from 2014 to 2016. More than half were in India.

Now this is not a final study. The media do not report every risky selfie. And India is a home for the largest population in the world.

Nevertheless, India was quite serious about the report. The police in the West Indian city of Mumbai determined 16 zones prone to accidents, where the majority of deaths associated with selfies were registered, for example, next to beaches and forts, as well as along the popular marine movement, which offers picturesque views of the Arabian Sea. Then they launched a public informing campaign On television And warnings were published about X. Computer scientists at the Institute of Information Technologies of Indrapstha, Delhi, (IIIT-D) launched a free application called Saftie in 2017, preventing selfies to stay away from high-risk areas.

Did these warnings affect? Or risky selfies remain a problem in India and in other places? We asked the journalist Kamal Tiagarajan, who made the original story, to continue.

He ran away as quickly as he could. It was too late.

IN Now a viral video Since August 10, the elephant has been pursuing and almost spends a tourist on the highway of the Bangipur National Park, known for his walks by nature, monitoring of birds and saphary of wildlife in the South Indian state of Karnataka. The authorities say that a person, a tourist from the neighboring state of Kerala, was lucky to survive – and that the elephant was probably provoked because the tourist got out of his safari and went to the animal to make a selfie.

This was not an isolated incident. In the same month, an elephant, accused of two people from Chhattisharh, a state with a wrong ejection in North India, when they tried to pose with him for SelfieThey managed to run to a safe place.

And in 2025, India remains at the top of the global list for dangerous selfies, according to two new research.

Last week, Barber’s law firm published results from analysis of the Google selfie accounts, which lead to injury or death, from March 2014 to May 2025.

271 cases of India amounted to 42% of the total. The United States took second place with 45 cases followed by Russia since 19.

A Selfie data database Coating from 2014 to 2023 from the website comparison of insurance Swiftest. I came to the same conclusion. This leads 190 deaths in India – almost half of all the deaths that it amounted to – and 55 injuries.

Where is the danger hiding and who will suffer?

While the stories of animal attacks become headings, they are not a threat of selfie number one.

According to surveys, the most common dangerous zones are the height – waterfalls, roofs, bridges and rocks, which are especially tempting for dramatic selfies.

And the main instigators are men. A Joint research The University of Carnegie Mellon and the Indraopstha Technological Institute in New Deli found that about three of the four deaths associated with a selfie are dangerous.

One unexpected conclusion, say, selfie researchers, lies in the fact that victims are not just a person who relieves a selfie.

“One of the strange ideas that I discovered was that in places such as India, a person trying to make a selfie often enters the river or body of water, and then other people would jump into the water to try to save a person, as well as lose their life. It was very alarming to find out that the mistake of one person could lead to a wider grass, ”says Matthew H. Ours, a leading researcher for Swiftsteh.

What is the motive?

Sometimes people are looking for an Internet Slava. And maybe luck.

Psychologists say that the transition to “murders” occurs when the desire to check the online checks cancels judgment. “When people receive positive reviews about their selfie, this creates a desire to take them more. Use soon becomes abuse, ”says Selvikumari Ramasubramanyan, a clinical psychologist in M -Jellamite Profit and Research FundNon -profit, offering psychiatric services in Madura.

In a 2023 survey in 2023 on Instagram 1233 Users, each for 10 admitted that they risk their security for more subscribers.

Some of these high-risk self-risk self-risk tackers ultimately sell images to various social media platforms.

And hashtags, such as #Dangesy Selfie and #extremeselfie, encourage imitation behavior.

The arising danger

In India, the authorities are now concerned about another potential danger: mass meetings.

Solomon Neskumar, an additional police commissar in Calcutta, told NPR that the control of the crowd is always difficult and becomes even more complicated when people stop to take a selfie or their close cousin, videos to publish on Instagram and other platforms.

“We must keep the crowd to move to avoid accidents, but self -producers do not understand this. They put themselves and others, risking to be trampled – or, even worse, causes gifts, ”he says.

At meetings such as Mahakumba in the Northern Indian city of Pragian In January of this year, where millions of Hindu pilgrims visit what is considered the world’s largest religious festival, Selfies were prohibited.

To prevent a potential tragedy at such a big event, he says: “The police make frequent announcements to inform people about the ban and even temporarily confiscate phones from offenders.”

Fear of losing the phone, even for a short period of time, may turn out to be an effective restraint for risky selfies.

Kamala Tiagarajan is an independent journalist based in Madura, South India. She reports on global health, science and development and was published in The New York Times, British Medical JournalBBC, Keeper and other sockets. You can find it on x @kamal_t